Ronald J. Daniels J.D., LL.M.

Background

Mr. Ronald J. Daniels, also known as Ron, J.D., LL.M., served as the President of Johns Hopkins University at The Johns Hopkins Hospital since March 2, 2009. Mr. Daniels served as a Provost and served as a Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto since 1995, where he has taught and written extensively in the areas of corporate and securities law, regulation and government reform. ... Mr. Daniels served as a Manager of ACS Media LLC and ACS Media Income Fund. As Penn's Chief Academic Officer, Mr. Daniels had broad responsibility for undergraduate and graduate education, faculty affairs, research and technology transfer, global initiatives, student life, athletics, admissions, arts and culture, and libraries. Mr. Daniels is a vigorous advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching. While at Penn, working closely with the president, 12 deans and his provostial leadership team, he launched university-wide research initiatives in public health, regenerative medicine and the neurosciences, and implemented Penn Integrates Knowledge, which recruited eminent interdisciplinary scholars to Penn to hold joint appointments in two schools. Mr. Daniels serves as Chair of the Ontario Provincial Government's Panel on the Future of Government. He serves as a Trustee of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He serves as Director of CanWest Interactive Inc. He serves as a Member of The Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada, and Computershare Investor Services. He served as a Director of CanWest Global Communications Corp. from January 2004 to February 2010. He served as a Director of Rockwater Capital Corp. from 2003 to May 2006, Canwest Media, Inc. from January 2004 to 2008 and Brookfield Renewable Power, Inc. (previously, Great Lakes Power Inc.) since 2000. Mr. Daniels served as a Director of Moore Wallace Inc. (formerly, Moore Corp. Ltd.) since July 2001. He served as a Director of ACS Media Canada Inc. and Harrowston Inc. He served as a Trustee of ACS Media Income Fund since May 8, 2003. He served as Chair of the Ontario Task Force on Securities Regulation and Special Advisor to the Ontario Government on Reform of Public Accounting Regulation. Mr. Daniels is a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. Mr. Daniels also served as President of the Council of Canadian Law Deans, president of the Council of Ontario Law Deans, and Member of the Board of Governors of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He initiated a program to teach law and justice at two inner-city high schools; co-founded International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty; and founded and chaired Pro Bono Students Canada, which places more than 2,000 law students each year in community-based organizations across Canada. Mr. Daniels joined Penn from the University of Toronto, where he was dean of the Faculty of Law and James M. Tory Professor of Law. During his 10 years as dean, he doubled the size of the faculty; recruited global scholars; cut the student-faculty ratio (from 18 to 1 to 10 to 1); dramatically enlarged the endowment; increased financial aid; implemented comprehensive reforms of curricula, student services, and faculty research standards; and spearheaded initiatives to strengthen international recruitment, social engagement, and interdisciplinary programs. For faculty, Mr. Daniels established university-wide faculty mentoring and leadership development programs; developed dual career and family friendly initiatives; strengthened appointment and promotion standards; and enriched strategies to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, with particular attention to women and underrepresented minorities. For Penn undergraduates, Mr. Daniels worked with the president and the executive vice president to implement a comprehensive new financial aid program that eliminated loans for students with financial need. He introduced innovative programs to enhance the quality of the undergraduate experience, including: Undergraduate Research Mentorships, in which students collaborate directly with faculty members on research projects; Ideas in Action, in which students work with policy-makers to solve concrete policy problems; Distinguished International Scholars, which has 10 leading international figures to teach Penn undergraduates for two weeks; and Civic Scholars, which combines community service and social advocacy with close faculty supervision and rigorous, specially designed courses. Mr. Daniels' research focuses on the intersections of law, economics and public policy, in such areas as corporate and securities law, social and economic regulation and the role of law and legal institutions in promoting third world development. Mr. Daniels is an author or editor of seven books, Rule of Law Reform and Development (2008), on the role of legal institutions in the economies of third world countries, and Rethinking the Welfare State (2005), an analysis of global social welfare policies, especially the effectiveness of government vouchers (both co-authored with Michael Trebilcock). Mr. Daniels is also the author or co-author of dozens of scholarly articles. He is visiting professor and Coca-Cola World Fellow at Yale Law School and John M. Olin Visiting Fellow at Cornell Law School. Mr. Daniels earned an LLM from Yale University in 1988 and a JD in 1986 from the University of Toronto, where he served as co-editor-in-chief of the law review and earned several academic honors. Mr. Daniels received a BA from the University of Toronto in 1982, with high distinction as a political science and economics major.

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